HOUSE OF THE DEAD helmer eyes more video game movies

By: Patrick Sauriol
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

What is it about director Uwe Boll and video games? After making HOUSE OF THE DEAD (which was skewered by movie critics and audiences alike) and now in post-production on ALONE IN THE DARK, Boll has announced that his production company has optioned the movie rights to two more video games.

The games in question are Eidos' FEAR EFFECT and Vivendi Universal's HUNTER: THE RECKONING, which is based on a pen-and-paper role-playing game created by White Wolf. Boll sees the films as costing somewhere between $15 to $25 million dollars and wants to shoot the HUNTER movie this coming summer.

But here's the problem, Uwe: didn't you already option the movie rights to the video games BLOODRAYNE and DUNGEON SIEGE, and wanted to make those movies sometime in 2004 too? Either Uwe will be a very busy man this year or else some of these pots on the stove aren't heating up any longer (like that proposed sequel to HOUSE OF THE DEAD, right?)

Both FEAR EFFECT and HUNTER are considered in the genre of survival horror video games: loads of action and plenty of monsters to blow away, with FEAR EFFECT steeped in more of a cyberpunk setting than the X-FILES-ish HUNTER universe.

No mention of Boll's other proposed video game film projects was given. Are those games already over?


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